An oasis of beauty and tranquility, the Master’s Garden includes a wide range of plants with flowering interest throughout the year. The borders are very colourful in the summer months, with shades that are particularly sensitive to the historic location and grey garden walls. The garden includes a border planted to celebrate the Queen’s Golden Jubilee [...]
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The Master’s Garden
8 Comments CherryPie on Dec 6th 2016
When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world – no matter how imperfect – becomes rich and beautiful, for it consists solely of opportunities for love.
Søren Kierkegaard
12 Comments CherryPie on Nov 13th 2016
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Queen Eleanor’s Garden
11 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
10 Comments CherryPie on Oct 30th 2016
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.
Count Maurice Maeterlinck
8 Comments CherryPie on Oct 23rd 2016
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The Serpent Garden
In the Serpent Garden, a topiary snake entices you past a series of sculptures, in which water flows over polished stainless steel and creates a canyon through which you can try to squeeze without getting wet.
There is also a mushroom-shaped structure on which surface tension and viscosity overcome gravity. The display culminates in the Torricelli [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 17th 2016
…looking back at the pond and the owl and the pussycat shown in the previous post.
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 15th 2016
